Item Summary

Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (c) in Storey's description, Persian Literature (1927-), vol. II, 1, p. 125).

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا کتاب عجائب المخلوقات / من تاليفات زکريا بن محمد القزوينى.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt / min taʼlīfāt Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī.
Call Number
Cage 39, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 426Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj6731h502
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
186 leaves: paper, illuminations ; 306 x 207 (210 x 117) mm bound to 312 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovich, M. N. Turkish and Persian manuscripts, 426
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
On front cover: Label reading "ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūq[āt]" in Arabic script; and label reading "No. 1 MR" in Western script.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 186 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
Description: Rubricated ; occasional catchwords ; original leaves inserted into new frames of later paper ; watermarks (original paper: unidentified mark) ; MS in good to fair condition, some staining and smudging, numerous paper repairs with some loss of text.
Decoration: 408 small miniatures in blue, red, black, brown, yellow and white. Some are damaged.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 24 Muḥarram 994 (fol. 186b). This date is spurious as the paper is of much later date, likely 18th century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله مبدع العقول والارواح ومنشئ النفوس جايل الافا وما فىها من الثوابت والسيارات ...
Colophon: تمت الكتاب عجائب المخلوقات بعون الله الملك الوهاب بتاريخ پنجشنبه 24 محرم سنه 994 نه صد نود و چهار هجرى
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Yellow paper pastedown.

Discovery Information

Subject
Geography, Arab—Early works to 1800
Cosmography—Early works to 1800
Zoology—Pre-Linnean works
Botany—Early works to 1800
Science, Medieval—Early works to 1800
Zodiac—Pictorial works
Monsters—Pictorial works
Animals—Pictorial works
Plants—Pictorial works
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Encyclopedias
illuminated manuscripts
illuminations (paintings)
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
376

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3c45e7a8-0193-4384-9d1e-bd2debcc492a/manifest